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The aircraft made only one brief flight, on November 2, 1947, and the project never advanced beyond the prototype. Built from wood (Duramold process) because of wartime restrictions on the use of aluminum and concerns about weight, the aircraft was nicknamed the Spruce Goose by critics, although it was made almost entirely of birch.
[5] [6]: 163, 259 He spent the rest of the 1930s and much of the 1940s setting multiple world air speed records and building the Hughes H-1 Racer (1935) and the gigantic H-4 Hercules (the Spruce Goose, 1947), the largest flying boat in history with the longest wingspan of any aircraft from the time it was built until 2019.
Yet, employment had dropped to 800 by 1947. By the summer of 1947 certain politicians had become concerned about Hughes' alleged mismanagement of the Spruce Goose and the XF-11 photo reconnaissance plane project. They formed a special committee to investigate Hughes which culminated in a much-followed Senate investigation, one of the first to ...
The Hughes H-4 Hercules, also known as the "Spruce Goose", had its one and only flight when Howard Hughes and a crew flew it for eight minutes. It is the largest flying boat ever built and has the largest wingspan of any aircraft in history.
Hughes H-4 Hercules (Spruce Goose) 2 Nov 1947: Flying boat: 1: 72.94 yards (66.70 meters) 106.95 yards (97.80 meters) 177.15 tons:
Microsoft is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the venerable Flight Simulator series today with the launch of the aptly named Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary update. As the company ...
November 2 – With Howard Hughes at the controls, the Hughes H-4 Hercules, also known as the "Spruce Goose," makes its first flight, traveling at 135 mph (217 km/h) for about a mile (1.6 km) at an altitude of 70 feet (21 meters) over Long Beach Harbor in California with 32 people on board.
Odekirk co-designed the H-4 Hercules (commonly known as the Spruce Goose) and many sources [which?] state that Odekirk was aboard when Hughes piloted the plane on its only flight on November 2, 1947. However, according to The Ouderkerk Family Saga: 350 Years in America, [2] Glenn Odekirk was not on the Hercules. Odekirk recalled that day: "I ...